The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has done a good thing to provide a truly comprehensive state-by-state comparative guide to health care.

We've written a lot about the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council, which is in the RWJ's guide, along with three other comparative sites covering the Keystone State. The Pennsylvania Health Care Quality Alliance and the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute will give you good statewide comparative resutls for a host of procedures. (The fourth covers south-central Pennsylvania.)

But what if you want to help Aunt Minnie in Minnesota find a Minneapolis-area practice that will help her control her diabetes? You can go to the RWJ site to check out Minnesota Healthscores for just that.

Now whether Aunt Minnie will listen to your informed advice, well that's between you and her.

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TIM DARRAGH has been reporting and editing the news for 30 years, most of it at The Morning Call. For much of that time, he's been doing award-winning investigative and in-depth reporting projects. Tim created the three-year-long Change of Heart project, and wrote a series on the state's fractured food inspection system that led to widespread improvements in food safety. Meantime, that novice jogger you see plodding along the streets around Bethlehem Township? That would be Tim.